Defying Stereotypes: A Tale of Two Soccer Girls

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There are two 18 year old girls who loves to play soccer but their parents are always against it. Jesminder’s parents have forbidden her to play soccer because she is a girl but her coach, Joe was impressed with how she played and put her in the team. She lied to her parents and pretended that she got a job so that she could play on the team. Jess’s friend, Juliette is also going through the same thing. Juliette’s mother believes that she shouldn’t be playing soccer since the sport is only for guys and thinks that boys don’t want to being going out with girls that have bigger muscles than them. This text connects to the idea of empathy and conflicting cultures as it shows the stereotypes, genders and equality in the text. In the text the parents

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